After being postponed twice due to the difficult events that took place, with the death of 21 fighters in the battles against Hamas, the singer and actor Idan Amadi is holding a press conference today (Thursday) at Sheba Tel Hashomer Hospital. The meeting was held with the release of Amadi for further rehabilitation in his home, after he was seriously injured while fighting in the Gaza Strip. “My body is hurt, but my spirit is stronger than ever,” he said. “I will return to sing, act. If God gives me strength – I will return to fight for my country.”
“This position is not natural to me, so be patient,” he said at the beginning of his words. “Good morning everyone, if you can say ‘good morning’ these days. I want to start my words by sending a hug to the bereaved families, I know there are no words to comfort the heart, it is important to me that you know that your sons and daughters are my heroes until the end of my days. At certain moments we allowed ourselves to cry Together, they meant a lot.
“I arrived here burnt and sooty. Ironically, I was unrecognizable, and the tag read ‘Unknown, 22.’ The page does not contain everyone’s names, but it is important to me that the people of Israel know that they have won the most dedicated and professional medical teams.
“Another reason why I am here is the deep understanding of the war wounded. I meet them in the various examinations and wards. If there is one good thing that happened as a result of my injury, it is my ability to be a messenger. For people of our kind, who are used to being independent and strong, this thing in itself is a challenge – Understand that you are wounded and sick, digest things, and accept that there are things that will probably never go back to the way they were before. I ask of you the public – as you were for me, be for them. Give them the space to voice their pain, support and hug them. Those who wanted first without hesitation and willingly out of love for the people and the country need You are now in their difficult hour. Their injuries are not only physical, but also mental. During the battles we lost brothers in arms. There are things that take time for the soul to process and contain. I have the opportunity to stand on the stage and speak on their behalf and ask all the professional bodies and citizens – please pay attention to them.
“The operation in which I was wounded was an important and valuable operation. I don’t know what has already been published, so I will be careful. The things we found there blew our minds. The extent and depth of the tunnels and the special ammunition found there are further proof of the cruelty of our enemies. For reasons that are still being investigated, this accident caused a lot of damage to our forces, two of the dead were fighters and members of my team. Major General Gabriel Blum and the late Major General Akiva Yasinsky.
“My husband was a professional fighter, an inquisitive and strong man. I had the privilege of getting to know him in the war and fighting alongside him. He was a beloved man. Akibosh, Akiva and I have known each other since we were 19, we were accepted together into the patrol team, we were trained together, we fought together in many battles and in the various wars – from cast lead, through A solid cliff, and of course in the current war. How can I say goodbye to you? For several days now I have been lost in longing for you that tears my heart apart. The most knowledgeable and professional warrior, strong and kind-hearted, a one-time sniper whose name has gone before him. You would catch me at night after everyone had fallen asleep, and point me You were my moral and moral compass. From the moment I woke up in intensive care, I asked if you survived. You told me about the degree you finished and managed to throw me one last cynical joke: ‘Do you see my position? Some people do something serious in their lives.’ I appreciate you and I love you forever. To the families of Gavri and Akibosh, I’m sorry I didn’t live up to my mission as a commander to return them home safely, this pain will accompany me like a sign of Cain until my last day.”
“During the past few years, I was active in the prisoners and missing persons headquarters for the repatriation of Hadar Goldin, Oron Shaul, Avra Mengisto and Hisham A-Sayed. With the members of the cabinet and the Knesset, we said that the problem of the captives is currently a problem of individual families, but if the State of Israel does not learn – a day will come and it will be a problem of many. It pains me to find out that I was right. The most important message that I want to get out of here is that we must not abandon them again. In order to rebuild trust we must return them home – this is our moral duty.”
Yael Frankel, the director of the hospital, said earlier: “I am very excited to be here with you today on this day, which is another small symbol that you are released from the hospital, and this is how we remember together the last two and a half weeks that you have been here with us. Idan came to us, being seriously injured, He is ventilated and sedated, after the heroic treatment he received in the field by the 669 teams, and Musk came to us. Since then, we have gone through a difficult road together, but with you it was much easier, because taking care of someone with such willpower, such optimism, and such strength – this is really the example of the victory of the spirit of our era and of the State of Israel”. She also added that “we have about two hundred wounded here that we will continue to accompany them”.
The press conference upon his release from Sheba Hospital arouses interest in the world as well: American media, news agencies and media from Italy, France and Germany.
Amadi served in the reserves since October 7 as a soldier in the Engineering Corps, until, as mentioned, he was seriously injured in the Gaza Strip about two weeks ago. He was taken to Sheba Hospital in Tel Hashomer, and was sedated and ventilated with shrapnel in all parts of his body, and was treated and released from the trauma department a few days later. Following an improvement in his condition – he is released for home rehabilitation, as stated on his behalf.
Last November, Amadi wrote on Instagram that he was “ready not to perform or sing for a year” in order to continue fighting. According to him, “It is forbidden to abandon the citizens of the south and the north again. Anything that is not the elimination of Hamas in Gaza and the root treatment of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon is an immediate danger to our children.”
During the months of fighting, a series of documentaries from the Strip were published in which he starred. For example, a video was published that was shot from several angles documenting the destruction of a school in the Shejaia neighborhood in Gaza where terrorist infrastructure was located including tunnel shafts used by Hamas terrorists, as well as weapons and explosive devices. The one who announced the explosion with his voice was none other than Amadi.
“While we were still small, we blew up the location, the school, where our forces found weapons, explosive sites and tunnel shafts,” Amadi is heard saying in the video. “Let the people of Israel know and let all the nations of the world know that these are our enemies and this is how they educate their children. Our answer to our enemies is one, as the Hanukkah saying goes – we came to drive out darkness.”
Before that, Amadi announced the explosion of a building in Gaza – and dedicated it to the memory of those murdered in the October 7 massacre. “In a little while we will detonate the search in memory of all the victims, our brothers and sisters who were massacred on October 7,” the singer said on the walkie-talkie and asked to specifically mention his friends – the two fallen IDF soldiers, “Alexei Shmeklov and the late Dror Elton. The Lord and we will avenge their blood “, said.
A few days earlier, Amadi was part of the first forces to arrive at the beach of Gaza – and there, together with his teammates, he raised the Nova flag in memory of those murdered from that party.
At the beginning of the war and before the ground entry into Gaza began, Amadi was stationed in the northern arena – and met there with the Chief of Staff, Major General Harzi Halevi, who had come to visit the Northern Command. Halevi responded with a smile to the singer and even complimented his neat clothing: “Wow, what a model, you can sort Do I also have such equipment?”
A few days earlier, Amadi asked to convey a message to the seniors sitting in the Kriya: “If my voice is heard in the distance and reaches the rooms there in the Kriya, you will know that we will not be ready to stop, there is no proportionality in the battle with human animals. We learned the hard way, not for the first time, that our fate is in our hands.”
